A fire followed by three explosions struck a plastic factory in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday, but there were no casualties.
A Louisville fire official said that fire was first seen by employees in some drying equipment at the bag house located in one building of the BASF Corp. plant. The bag house is where dry materials […]
Entries from January 2008
Explosion at a Plastic Factory in Louisville
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Refinery Fire in Wyoming Injures 2
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
A fire at Frontier Oil’s Cheyenne, Wyoming, refinery Saturday night injured two employees and temporarily shut down part of the plant, the company announced Monday.
One worker sprained an ankle, and the other suffered smoke inhalation while fighting the fire, company spokesman Doug Aron said.
The fire started in the delayed coking unit, or coker, which converts […]
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CSB Reports on Deadly Explosion in Jacksonville, FL, that Killed 4
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Dubbed as “one of the most powerful explosions ever examined” by the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), the fatal blast that killed four workers at a production site in Jacksonville, Florida, most likely resulted from an overheated chemical reactor.
A team of CSB investigators who surveyed remnants of the Dec. 19 explosion at T2 […]